Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch

Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch is one of the intimate middle-grades schools in Avon, Illinois, run under Abingdon-Avon CUSD 276, with 204 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 56% smaller than the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 462 students.

Across the 4 schools in Abingdon-Avon CUSD 276 (906 students total), Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch lists that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.0:1 average. An estimated 51% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Fulton County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,599 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fulton County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,160 students), Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch is one campus in the mix.

Avon Elem Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Abingdon-Avon Middle Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 231 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 90% to 84%.

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